Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America - Bert Hansen - Books - Rutgers University Press - 9780813545769 - May 28, 2009
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Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America

Bert Hansen

Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America

Features 130 archival illustrations drawn from newspaper sketches, caricatures, comic books, Hollywood films, and ""LIFE"" magazine photography. This work analyzes the relationship between mass media images and popular attitudes. It shows how media portrayal and popular support for medical research grew together and reinforced each other.


352 pages, 108 black & white & 22 colour illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 28, 2009
ISBN13 9780813545769
Publishers Rutgers University Press
Pages 368
Dimensions 256 × 249 × 24 mm   ·   766 g

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